Word: pawning
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...function. They are simply in business within a free market economy. Their careers need neither inspire nor offend anyone. Armed with this independent outlook. Stratten could have become president of her own "company" (i.e. her professional self) and ruler of her own life; instead, she became one man's pawn and victim...
...play comes closer to achieving dramatic balance with the arrival of Eric Jacobson as the equally pivotal character Eilert Lovborg--the pawn to contrast with Brack and Hedda's manipulations, the hidden genius whose character weaknesses lock him into the same dead-ended bitterness as the rest...
...trip does not mean there will be a great leap forward in U.S.-China relations. The Chinese, as Premier Zhao Ziyang told Weinberger, are waiting to see if U.S. words will be "proved by deeds and actions." The U.S. must worry whether Peking is using it mainly as a pawn in its closer-to-home struggle with the U.S.S.R. But for an Administration that early this summer announced plans to sell Taiwan $800 million in arms, relations are perhaps better than could have been anticipated...
...could deal with him-from Braque, through Giacometti, to de Kooning and Arshile Gorky-an almost indescribably fruitful one. Today such a career seems inconceivable. No one even shows signs of assuming the empty mantle. If ever a man created his own historical role and was not the pawn of circumstances, it was that Nietzschean monster from Malaga...
Shibutani, who plays first flute for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and who has recorded professionally, said yesterday that he notified the University police of the break-in early Saturday morning and later posted notices and called area music schools and pawn shops, providing a description and serial numbers for the instruments...